Mar 20, 2019

WASHINGTON, DC-The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Mark Green, is launching a new tuberculosis (TB) data hub today in Washington, DC. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) is playing a large role.

TB data from 23 USAID priority TB countries and global TB data will be housed on the new interactive website at www.tbdiah.org, built by project partners UNC and John Snow, Inc. (JSI). UNC is the prime contractor for the project, an award of $35 million announced in September 2018.

The award is the first from USAID under its Global Accelerator to End TB initiative, announced in September 2018. The Accelerator focuses on performance-based measures to determine if programs are succeeding in reaching and curing people with TB. USAID describes TB DIAH-and other projects that will follow-as its new business model to combat the world’s most deadly infectious disease.

This UNC-led project is among the first to provide interactive TB data streams that users can interpret, analyze, and query to visualize what data are telling us about disease trends and best practices in fighting TB. The UNC-hosted website also contains important global data on TB, tools for health providers and policymakers, reports on TB project successes, country strategies, and global efforts against TB.